Improvement in vehicle-hubs



G. P. BENNETT.

Vehicle Hub.

Patented Jan. 8,1878.

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. BENNETT, OF OORNING, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHlCLE-HUBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,924, dated January 8, 1878; application filed June 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. BE NETT, of Corning, in the county of Adams and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hubs, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective View of a hub with my improvement attached. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

My invention relates to hubs for land-carriages of various kinds; and it consists in the combination of devices hereinafter explained and claimed. 3

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

In the drawings, A represents a hub, having shrunk upon its outer and inner ends the metal bands to, providedwith screw-threads. Over the one end is fitted and screwed the metal cap B, which is also provided on its interior with the screw-threads b b.

On the inner or large end of the hub A is fitted the screw-cap O, having cast upon it the elongated box D, which extends entirely through the hub A, and is provided with a screw-thread upon its outer end, which enters and screws into the threads I) of the metal cap B, thus binding and firmly drawing together the caps on the opposite ends of the hub.

I am aware of patents to H. A. Payne, No. 158,974, dated January 19, 1875, and L. N. Bewley, No. 168,445, dated October 5, 1875, for improvements in hubs, and such I disclaim, broadly, as my invention; but,

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved hub herein described, consisting of the hubA, having the screw-threaded metal. bands at a shrunk upon its outer ends, screw-cap O, and elongated box D, cast or formed in one piece, with its outer end screwthreaded, and the metal cap B, having interior screw-threads b b, the several parts constructed and relatively arranged as and for the purpose specified.

D. S. SIGLER, I W. O. MITCHELL. 

